The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-22

inst by the defeat OF the Manly accent fare bill
and all other similar measures Il the session.
The effort TO secure cheap thousand mile tick
cts, made principally by the merchants and
manufacturers OF Detroit, also went down by
the same decisive vote. Is 10 IL. Both
houses passed n concurrent resolution ac-
ceptng the tender OF els, go made by Congress
TOR an experimental agricultural farm. IL will
be under charge of the State Board OF Agri, ult.
ure and be located on the pine barrens Of the
northern part OF the Lower Peninsula, AS all ex-
pertinent, TO SEQ whether anything can be made
70 grow on these sterile lains. Mr.. Perce's
ball amending the truant laws passed the House
OF Representatives. The bill smplihes and
codifies tho present laws on the subject, the
main change being that boys who are incor-
rigible or habtual truants may be sentenced to
the reform school between the ages of and 10
years. The former law made the youngest age
10 years Bills passed in the House To pro-
vide for compulsory education OF juvenile dis
orderlies IN cities and villages also Senator
Monroe banking act, and bills 10 authorize
the incorporation OF companies for
cavatng. constructing, and maintaining
water-courses for milling and manufacturing
purposes; TO define the rights OF townships in
approaches Of railroad companies. Both houses
adjourned until the 18th
BoTH houses convened, but remained in ses-
sion less than thirty minutes, on the 18th inst
The House was without a quorum and at once
adjourned. The Senate transacted routine
business, received a batch OF petitions, aud con-
Cured in House amendments on the Monroe
banking bill before adjournment
BOTH houses OF the Legislature held long
little in the way Of passing bills The Senate
passed the House bill making an appropriation
of SbO0O for the state Normal School and S3],-
900 for the State Board Of Fish Commissioners
for two years, and the bill to provide each
county in the State with full set of Supreme
Court reports Tho University appropriation
executive veto, tabled in the House An
attempt was made in the Senate to fix the time
of final adjournment for June 25, but it failed.
The House was in committee OF the whole
nearly cOusid-
cred was one making all appropriation for the
Northern Insane Asylum. The House increased
the appropriation $1,000 TO build new cottage
To hold fifty more patients. Several bills were
killed, among them one by Mr.. Bates providing
for minority-representatic plan OF voting for
Representatives in the State Legislature. The
bill TO prohibit the contract system in the State
penal institutions failed to pass the House.
The House passed bill to allow debts owing to
be deducted from assessment lists. The enact
ing clause in minority-representation bill was
strick en- out
A BILL intended to wipe out bucket-shops,
entitled "A bill to prevent gambling in stocks,
bonds, petroleum. cotton, grain, provisions and
other produce, passed both houses on the 18th
inst. 1t is one of the most stringent laws
drafted on the subject, and makes the brokers'
agent employer, owner of building premises
occupied for this purpose guilty of INSIDE
meanor punishable the first offense by q
hne Of not less than $500 more than 900, and
on the second offense with the same penalty and
Imprisonment in the county Jail for six months
| The Senate Committee on Liquor Traffic favor
ably reported the Marshall liquor bill with a
few amendments. The Burr local-option bill by
counties passed the Senate by vote of u yeas
TO nays. The House bill provid ng for the APP
| pointment of commission OF thee persons
to go to Gettysburg and mark with suitable
| monuments the position OF Michigan S various
| regiments on the day of the battle, passed
| the Senate. The House passed the Senate bill
| shortening by three years the term for which
| young girl may be sentenced TO the Industrial
| Home at Adrian. 1t 10 claimed that offenders
younger than ~ years ought TO go to the State
| Public School instead of to the Reformatory
| Institute. The bill provides that any girl be-
| tween 10 and IL years of age may be on con-
! victon sentenced TO the Industrial Home until
| she is II years old. The age at present is Z to
| II years A Senate bill passed the House
making Lansing the headquarters of the State
! Advisory Board OF Pardons' An office will
| be kept in the city, and sessions OF the
Board be held in rooms to be provided
! by the Secretary Of State. The Board viii hold
two sessions annually, and may adjourn from
day 10 day. but no session shall be longer than
thirty days. IL is understood that Mr.. Free
| man, Chief Clerk in the Executive Office, will
become ClerA OF this Board The manner Of
/ petitioning for pardon has been materially
| changed by this act and provides tor thirty
days publication in the paper in Detroit having
the largest circulation in the State of the notice
OF application for pardon, and this notice
shall be sworn To and certified by the publisher,
| and shall form part of the papers in applica-
tions. The applioat on papers shall be
| at least thirty days before its meeting.
A large number of bills passed the House,
! for the organization of corporations for buying,
| selling, and breeding cattle sheep, and horses ;
! providing for completing anu furnishing the
attics OF the Northern Asylum for the Insane,
! at Traverse City, and appropratin2 SIS. so for
! building Il new cottage; TO authorize the Erie
! and kalamazoo Railroad Company to change
the line of road between Palmyra Junction and
Adrian IA bill recognizing the military forces
of the state; one TO punish and prevent Of
lenses against chastity, morality, and decency /;
several stenographor bills, and two swamp-land
| bills.
THE Senate spent the entire day in commit
tee Of the whole on the liquor tax bill the
10TH and amended it in various ways, the most
import ant amendments being one permitting
dealers to secure sureties anywhere in the
| township instead OF the village; giving the
| County Treasurer per cent. OF the tax for col
| lection instead Of - only, affecting counties
with large cities in them and lowering the tax
from $50 20 SEQ, which is the figure mt pres ent.
One OF the most radical changes from present
school laws was made by the passage of the
Senate bill by the House amending sundry
sections OF the law relating TO the examination
of teachers and superintendent of schools, and
the duties of Township Clerk and County Clerk
| concerning school rates. Ii prov des that the
the County Board of School Examiners, which
is decreased TO two members, elected by town
ship Chairman of School INSPECTORS With
| u Secretary who, shall act in the general capa-
city as inspector of the schools of the county,
having duties very similar TO those OF the
| County superintendent in many States. Tho
examiners may select Secretary who is not a
resident of the State. The Secretary shall be
an ex-oflicio member of the County Board and
its executive officer He shall visit all schools
in the county at least once each year The
Secretary shall receive such compensation as
the County Board of Supervisors shall de-
termine, but il shall not be less than
$500 for each organized district in the coun-
| ty nor more than s1,50). The Secretary
may be removed for immortality, incompetency,
or neglect Of duty by the same officers who
elected him, and in case of a vacancy new
selection is made by the two examiners acting
| will a Probate Judge. "A
change, and affects all the State except dis
tricts under special interpretations and incor-
porated cities before organized Representa-
tive w. A. Baker introduced joint resolution
in the House asking the Governor to communi-
cate with President Cleveland protesting
against the restoration of the captured rebel
battle-hags. IL was adopted without dissent
similar resolution was adopted IN the Sem
ate.
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